The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-17
Wisconsin Items.

Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wkeat-No. 9. S34@SS1ac.
Corn-No. 8, 371f037115c. Oats-No. ., 3O14c.
Rye-No. /, SIC. Barley-No. 2, SIC.
An Appleton man claims to have cross
eyed hen, and says she was made so by
watching a colored man who lives near by
and brood of chickens at the same time.
News was received at Madison recently
of the death in Colorado of Wendell w.
Paine, aged twenty-five years, son of By
ron Paine, deceased, Associate Justice OF
the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1861
to 1871. Voting Paine graduated from tbs
Wisconsin State University in 1888.
]. G. Donnelly, State Executive at Mil.
waukee of the Irish National League,
received from Mr.. Gladstene's privat6
secretary few days ago letter express
ing the thanks of the Liberal leader for the
sympathy of the Wisconsin citizens for the
home rule movement
The infantry recruiting station in Chi
cago will be discontinued on the Both inst,
and transferred to Milwaukee.
The inter State reunion of the veterans
of Wisconsin and Minnesota will be held al
Durand Pepin County, beginning on the
18th of June and continuing five days. The
Governors of both States And many other
prominent men have signifed their inten.
ton to be present.
Mrs Crowley, prisoner in the House OF
Correction at Milwaukee, serving term
for drunkenness, and Mrs. Siery, who was
sent there because she was destitute, &C.
cidentally discovered a few days ago that
they were mother and daughter. Mrs.
Siery, eighteen years ago, was taken away
from her mother on account o. The latter's
dlssipated habits. The young woman is
the deserted wife of Ben Siery, the cham.
pion skater.
A circular saw in Ball & Cumbersome
mill at Kempton, Eau Claire County, burst
a few days ago, a fragment of which
struck Peter Olson, an employe, killing
him instantly.
Burglars recently took $500 worth of
watches and jewelry from the store oil
Hotchl1iss & Newell at Osseo, Trempealeau
County They also cleared the cash draw
er Of quite sum Of money.
The jury in the circuit court at James
vile recently found that Dennis and Will,
lam Ryan, railroad contractors, were liza.
BILE for 81 800 board bills contracted by men
in their employ.
A fire the other morning destroyed C.
Peterman's house at Euu Claire. Total
loss, 81, 500; insurance light.
Jacob Truax, the oldest person in North
western Wisconsin, celebrated his ninety
ninth birthday in the presence of the fam
lilies of his children and number of i'm
mediate friends at Eau Claire few DAYS
ago. Mr.. Truax IS the father of Peter
Truax, the wealthy lumberman of that
city.
Two young boys, sons of William A.
Murray, and Archie ellis were drowned
in Half Moon lake, near Eau Claire, fow
days ago while playing upon logs. The
bodies were recovered. (:
The body of John AXE, second baseman
of the Duluth Base Ball Club who was
drowned at La Crosse May IA, was found
his boat cap3ized.
A large bed of mineral paint has been
discovered at MilladOre, Wood County.
Secretary A. o. Wright, of the Board of
Incorporators of the Wisconsin Veterans
Home, says that the idea relative to tho
establishment of the home, both on the
part of the incorporators and the Grand
Army posts, is that of one main build
ing for dining and social purposes and
small cottages for the homes, thus to make
them homes in reality.
Three boys named Daniel Reedy, Walter
Bixby and Charles Winkelman, all be-
tween the ages Of fifteen and seventeen
years, escaped from the industrial school
at Waukesha recently and were supposed
to have gone to Milwaukee.
Joe Grueber, young German. of North
Greenfield, Milwaukee County, eloped re-
Gently with colored girl known as ''Black
Topsy."
Andrew Malloy, Jr., a lunatic, escaped
from his keepers at Fond du Lac the other
night and boarded the engine of North
western freight train. The engineer
stopped the engine, and with the fireman
fed. Malloy was recaptared before he
had done any harm
At La Crosse the other evening Officer
George Keys shot and killed Tim Brady,
gambler, in self-defense.
benjamin Hymor, aged fourteen, was
drowned in the slough in the Mississippi
river at Potosi, Grant County, the other
night
The fishermen of Ahnapee, Kewaunee
County, have taken their nets out Of the
lake and abandoned the grounds, the catch
Of fish not being sufficient to ply expenses.
Oscar Quentin, a young business man OF
Milwaukee, accidentally shot himself re-
Gently while hunting near Lake Gogebic
The Eau Claire City Council at special
meeting the other evening adopted a resO-
luton appropriating $4,000 to Eastern
parties, WAC propose to erect blast fur
mace here. The provisions are that the
company shall expend SIPS, 0)0 On the WORKS
before the bonus is paid over.
Minert Apple, an old resident Of James,
Vile, cut his throat viva a pair Of scissors
a few days ago and might die.
DR.. o. p Wolcott, one of the oldest and
! best-known physicians in Milwaukee, was
| swindled out of $500 in cash by lottery
| sharks the other day. Dr.. Wolcott is
| eighty-four years oil. He was lured into
| the game by a young man who claimed to
| be son of Hamilton Dye, president of a
bank in Detroit, an old acquaintance Of
! DIR. Wolcott.
Banker Jones, charged with receiving
deposits knowing he was insolvent, was
| found guilty of embezzlement the other
| day at Oconto. The amount involved
was $3.50. The jury was out but a few
| minutes.
The convent bell at La Crosse rang an
alarm before midnight the other night
Inquiry elected the information that some
unknown brute gained access to the MINIS
| dormitory ami made an assault On Sister
| Henrietta, who fought Drayely until ST e
effected her escape by leapine from tic
window to the ground, eighteen feet below.
She was not greatly injured. The villain
escaped.
Several parties are prospecting for sH-
yer in the vicinity of PittsvGIe, Wood
| County on the Yellow river.
At Hudson few days ago took place tha
formal opening Of the Oliver Wendell
HOLMES Hospital 1t was a gala day for tie
town, and The exercises wore of Il m3st in
terestng nature.
The Thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteers
held their reunion at Clinton. recently.
Associate Justice ". P. Lyon addressed
the veterans.
The seccaz annual convention o. the
Daughters of il s0ekah c. Wisconsin was
hell at Madison recently. The secretary s
report showed membership OF twenty
five hundred in the State. with eight
hundred lodges in good standing.